Refugees

MS St Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, attempting to dock in Miami's port and stopped by officials, June 1939. The caption under the photo the photo in The Miami Herald reads, Anchor Aweigh. This picture was taken just as the ship gathered headway. In the foreground are the Cuban police ‘suicide guard’.

Photo:  William B. Stapleton, Miami Herald, pg. 13, June 3,1939.

Refugee ship Theodore Herzl prepares to dock. A black and white photograph of the Theodor Herzl, the ship aboard which Alicia Appleman-Jurman traveled from Europe to Eratz, Israel after World War II, as seen before docking in the port of Haifa, Israel. The banner on the side of the ship reads "The Germans destroyed our families & homes - Don't you destroy our hopes". Caption on bottom of photograph reads: "14-IV 1947

Photo: Digital Commons, University of South Florida, Alicia Appleman–Jurman Photographs: J12-00035 Caption on bottom of photograph reads: "14-IV 1947 [untranslated Hebrew] 48".

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Vietnamese refugees wait to be taken aboard the command ship USS BLUE RIDGE after spending eight days at sea, May 15, 1984.

Phil Eggman

 
 

Syrian and Afghan refugees are seen on a deflated raft about 100 meters from the Greek island of Lesbos, September 13, 2015.

lkis Konstantinidis/Reuters 

 
Catherine Heard